johnbatchelorshow/podcasts/2013/11/01/first-hour Gregory Copley, author, in re: President Aliyev receives participants of Baku Int’l Humanitarian Forum Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received former Bulgarian leader Georgi Parvanov on October 31, Azertag state news agency reported. The Head of State hailed the participation of the former Bulgarian president in the Third Baku International Humanitarian Forum as important. President Aliyev stressed that interest in the annual forum in on the rise. The Head of State expressed hope that . . . (1 of 2) Friday 1 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Gregory Copley, author, in re: President Aliyev receives participants of Baku Int’l Humanitarian Forum (2 of 2) Friday 1 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Mark Rosen, Hoover, in re: Arctic Security Initiative: Addressing the Gaps in Arctic Governance by Mark E. Rosen and Patricio Asfura-Heim Friday 1 November 2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Claire Suddath, Bloomberg, in re: The Chives Smut with a Smile. The guy applying to be an intern is locked in the conference room. “Leave him in there for a while. I want him to sweat,” says John Resig, 35, co-founder and president of the Chive, a website based in Austin, Tex. Resig doesn’t mean he wants the guy to be nervous—that’s already been accomplished—he means he literally wants the kid to sweat through his shirt. “I want a big sweat mark right here,” Resig says, gesturing to his belly. When the Chive posts an internship opening, more than 2,500 people usually apply. To thin the résumé pile, and because he finds it funny, Resig resorts to mild hazing. He wants to know how far he can push people. But the kid just refuses to sweat. Word around the office is that he’s bro-lit author Tucker Max’s assistant, and he came to the Chive because he thought a wildly popular website built on pinup-style self-portraits submitted by women and blog posts on subjects such as “Kids, they’re like dogs that can sorta talk” and “Soooo…you got wasted” would be a fun place to work. It’s a crowdsourced, Internet version of . . .
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